Head of DOJ fraud unit joins Robert Mueller?s Trump / Russia criminal investigation
 

They're closing in fast, and bringing in Obama's lead investigator 👍👾

DOJ?s Weissmann Joining Mueller?s Russia Investigation Team | Bloomberg

As the head of the Justice Department?s fraud section in the Obama administration, Weissmann?s specialties have included corporate wrongdoing and foreign corruption. He has overseen investigations into Volkswagen AG over diesel-cheating, global banks over market manipulation and Brazil?s state-owned oil company Petrobras over corrupt payments. He also started a pilot program that offered companies incentives to self-report possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits bribing foreign officials.

Weissmann previously worked for Mueller as the FBI?s general counsel from 2011 to 2013. He also has experience with special investigations, having worked on and later managed the Enron task force during the George W. Bush administration.

Weissmann?s move leaves another senior leadership post open at the Justice Department, which still awaits appointments from Trump to lead its criminal and civil divisions. Weissmann was brought on in 2015 to run the fraud section under Leslie Caldwell, assistant attorney general for the criminal division during the Obama administration, whom he previously worked with on the Enron task force.

Special prosecutor Robert Mueller is bolstering his team of investigators probing possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, adding a top Justice Department official overseeing active investigations into corporate fraud and foreign bribery, according to people familiar with the matter.

The official, Andrew Weissmann, is the most senior government official to join Mueller, the former Federal Bureau of Investigation director who became special counsel on May 17, said two people, who asked not to be named discussing a personnel matter that hasn?t been made public. Mueller recently brought on Peter Carr, a veteran spokesman for the Justice Department, to deal with the news media. He also hired at least two lawyers from his former law firm, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP.

If he's an appointee Trump will just fire him when he gets too close.

Do you think he's gonna keep firing investigators? Seems like an obviously stupid thing to keep doing no?

You're talking about Chump. One of his middle names is stupid

True.

Trump is the king of fraud & the con. It says s lot that the head of the DOJ's fraud unit is the first big hitter added to the criminal investigation. :2 cents:

Just when you think he can't do anything more stupid. But what do you expect from a Russian puppet
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